Climate

The record cancelation of flights out of Phoenix, Arizona in the summer of 2017 due to unusually high air temperature is the reason I picked my doctoral research topic on the impacts of climate change on aviation.

Now, Phoenix set another unfortunate record: 100 straight days of 100°F (~38°C) or greater heat, beating the previous streak by 3.5 weeks.

The death toll will likely be in the hundreds this year (it was 645 last year for the whole Maricopa county). But of course, this does not include the death of local fauna and flora, which is silent until we find our food chains disrupted.

The record cancelation of flights out of Phoenix, Arizona in the summer of 2017 due to unusually high air temperature is the reason I picked my doctoral research topic on the impacts of climate change on aviation.

Now, Phoenix set another unfortunate record: 100 straight days of 100°F (~38°C) or greater heat, beating the previous streak by 3.5 weeks.

The death toll will likely be in the hundreds this year (it was 645 last year for the whole Maricopa county). But of course, this does not include the death of local fauna and flora, which is silent until we find our food chains disrupted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/

PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Aviator, diver, ETH maxi, nexialist | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

By your research, what d’you or can you say is the cause of the high temperature?

Geopolitics, web3 analyst, Art enthusiast

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions since the advent of the industrial age

Leading to depletion of the ozone layer🤔

Ozon layer mainly protects us from intense UV radiation from the sun.
We only receive a small portion of them and we still get skin cancer, so imagine without this natural sunscreen?